BLOOD LUST OF A PRINCESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4474, 15 February 1917, Page 6

BLOOD LUST OF A PRINCESS.

FIENDISH DELIGHT IN TORTURE.

Reuter’s Agency received early in December from assure source inGreece details of a dastardly attack on the f.4avor of Athens, M. Benaclu, who is o-jventy-three years of age. His house was attacked by rifle nre tlom the residence of Prince Ipsuanti, who is Master of the King’s Horse, f ro!U the house of M- Peziiiazaglou Is well as from the street. Princess Vosikinti the Hungarian wife of tjie Master of the Horse, was seen to be encouraging the soldiers. ‘ Eventually the house was broken . m n the aged Mayor seized .and subjected to fiendish cruelty. He was spat noon, wounded with bayonets beaten with the butt ends of rifles, aiu Pis bea>-d earth’ torn out. His c n d-dor was" such that an eyewitness •v-d that it would have been bettei Pad he been killed.

PRINCESS A PPLAUDS. c !iVl ;i-,v with blood) the Mayor was t?mu ’ dragged into the street, while Princess Ypsilanti was seen at a win-xf.-py clanping her hands. M. Ben aehi. was taken off for. examination, •I 'd eventual! v sent koine, where he lav under surveillance, with his house wrecked and looted and every window Corakas and three other nhsoners. including M. Maroudis, late chief of 7>olice. and a photographer „ imed. Stvlialdes, were removed from parliament House. The general re-u-mbled a corpse; blood streamed Horn T,;~ head and face on his torn clothes FPs eyeball? vere swollen and bruised Horn blows received during his arrest ard subsequent examination by tne magistrate- His three companions v/c-ve in even a.worso condition. AU v,ere photographed. •While the general was being taken post the principal restaurant ni Athens a man. amid the applause of the soldieis and the.crowd, threw filth in j ; face. This was the signal for the ■'->!) to break through the cordon andi shower insults and blows cn linn. tV-arirm that he would be killed the soldiers took him and the other victim back to Parliament House.